This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
Upon start of vehicle, wipers turned on(switch pos off), washer fluid sprayed(button not pressed), horn sounded (not pressed), could not get it to stop. Started vehicle, continued to do all three, vehicle placed in drive, would not shift out of 1st gear. Shut vehicle off, started again, same things. In days prior to this incident, the vehicle would stall unexpectedly, fortunately while approaching stop sign, or stop light and not on highway, resulted in loss of power steering, and all engine/speed indication. Dodge dealership in valdosta duplicated problems, replaced $500 electrical box. Been two days since repair, no repeats yet.
Driving about 60mph with three kids in car when key switched to off position. Steering hard until I switched the car into neutral and restarted it. The key had done this once before in park and once while driving aprox 20mph on a dirt rd.
The contact owns a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. The contact stated that while driving 40 mph, the vehicle suddenly stalled. Upon restart, the vehicle operated as normal. The dealer advised the contact that they would upgrade the computer; however, they were not sure that this repair would correct the failure. The manufacturer had not been notified. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000 and the current mileage was 90,000.
The contact owns a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. The vehicle was parked in the residence driveway. When the ignition was started the gear was shifted into park. The contact exited the vehicle and unexpectedly the vehicle began to roll approximately twenty feet at approximately 3 mph, crashing into the front of a garage. There were damages to the front bumper and the garage. There was no personal injury. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired for the failure. The failure mileage was 64,740.
I bought the car on Nov. 2008, new from mccune Dodge, and for the last year the car has stall on 4 different times, haven't been able to duplicate the problem at the dealer, no sensor light comes on, also have been having different issues with emergency brake pad, the shift gear, interiors light on center-map lights flicker constantly and rear dome.
Driving on vacation in St. Louis we were on highway going 65 miles/hour and we heard a rattling sound. Thinking we had a flat tire, we moved toward exit and noticed the engine had died. We coasted to the side of the highway exit. We just bought this brand new vehicle 2 weeks ago!!! after having it towed to service station, we were informed the computer that tells the engine what to do has malfunctioned. We rented a van and drove home to milwaukee. We still don't have our "new" van and now the repair station said they won't get the part for 5 more days! they don't know when they will be able to work on it. When the vehicle is repaired, we will have to drive back to St. Louis with a one-way rental to pick up our new, albeit, dangerous van.
Gear shift interlock does not disengage properly when putting gear shift into the park position causing key fob from not releasing from ignition switch. In order to release key properly the gear shift handle must be pushed up with force until a click is audible then interlock engages and key then can be removed from ignition. This problem occurs quite often and is more of a nuisance and headache. Took vehicle to dealer but they stated that gear shift mechanism needed replaced after adjusting gear shift cable. Part was labeled as restricted by Chrysler and did not have a eat for part availability. Called back dealer after a few days and the service tech stated that part was to ship on or after 11/1/08.
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- Hahira, GA, USA